KATIKATI.

Ohinemuri Gazette, Volume I, Issue 33, 30 July 1892, Page 8

KATIKATI.

From .our own.Correspondent. -< On the morning of Saturday, th©> > 23rd inst., John Hamilton peacefully passed away. His death was/however, expected for some time, "as; he was suffering from a complication of internal ailments, and three, months!" ago- Dv Bullen, of Tauranga/ advised him^to^ settle up his earthly affairs.- 'Hamilton' leaves a wife, four'daugbters r(twc^ of whom are married) arid two'sbtis^to mourn'his losk He was highly res* pected as being a steady; conscientious J upright man. r He was born on the late Captain 'Stewards "property^ at' I&artray, in the North of Ireland; and ' about 35 years ago he entered his !ser^ vice , and,by. his integrity 'and ■ good' conduct with a faithful discharge :ofhis duties'was promoted to \ the 1 important post of factor on the Martray estate in Tyrone. , When, however, the Stewart family emigrated toH HeY Zealand Hamilton'threw'in his lot and that of his family with them, 'settling at KatU > ' kati. During Mr , Vesey Stewart's ' absence at home in 1877-78''he' kindly took charge of the management of the' Mount Stewart property;' and^pn his 1' return to New Zealand, so pleased v^as ' Mr Stewart with> the r manner in.which he discharged his duties, that in addition to payment of his wages, he made' him a gift of 40 acres of land. s'This W sold for £5 an acre, or £200, "and with'the proceeds purchased'4o acres of superior land at £3 10s an/acre^'in which he made his final home, sol^r cas this world is i concerned. He was buried on, Tue's* day, and notwithstanding' the^large number engaged' in f tne^searchV parties for the unfortunate victinis of the boat accident, bis funeral was largely at- ■ tended. .- -,-p^ , A a,^,,, „ ' I regret to state _that .yWterday at 1 p,m. Mr Thomas 3., l^ulyaney (j;o whose illness I referred in ,my last) loined the great majority, and the f funeral, leayes Bay view at 11 a.m. to-morrow.,' "Mr ,' Mulvaiiey was a civil ; engineer ;by'prc*' 1. qession, r and had, charge' for many, years ' as managing director over extensive coal mines in Germany. In truth I" can safely state he has not left.a soul behincl him who could "even, say an'tra* kind word against him. IJknow, no person in the settlement who was more generally esteemed, and not only him-. \ self butj every, memberooff f „large family he has left behind him. .He was a thorough, Irishman,in every respect,, kind, genial, open-hearted , and, hos- ,-■ pifcable, possessing all. those, vgood qualities inherent to, the race, u withont k any of those drawbacks,from,.which some of us admittedly suffer. July 26,1892. _„,„ , , "j \ [